Example sentences of "at about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They become mature and adult for working purposes at about eight or nine months and will continue to work for the duration of their life . |
| 32 | He is drinking slowly , because it will be a long night , and rough cider usually comes out at about eight per cent alcohol , though nobody is measuring . |
| 33 | Cecilia Darne , who lived round the corner , said she heard a bell toll once at about eight in the morning . |
| 34 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 35 | ‘ It gets dark at about eight , ’ she says , pulling nervously at her hair . |
| 36 | You can get a seven year fix with Barclays , at about eight point five percent . |
| 37 | If you go for a ten year fix , Bank of Scotland are doing it at about eight point nine nine . |
| 38 | At about eight , eating became the question , then that got overwhelmed in crisps and salted peanuts . |
| 39 | I came back at about eight this morning in time to get his breakfast and found the dog outside the back door , whining . ’ |
| 40 | Increasing atmospheric levels of nitrous oxide currently stand at about eight per cent above pre-industrial levels . |
| 41 | Bombay to Perth at about eight hundred and fifty kilometres an hour |
| 42 | A lot of people wo n't come , I mean I erm erm fairly confident now that if it 's B A I E only we even out at about eight , I mean twenty can put their names down eight will turn up |
| 43 | Salter told the inquiry how his ‘ bobbing duck ’ device — a duck-shaped canister which , when installed in lines out to sea , would continually extract energy from the waves — had at that time ( 1982 ) been officially estimated to be capable of producing electricity at about 5 pence per kilowatt hour ( p/kWh ) . |
| 44 | Both were young men on their way to work , and both said they were very frequently stopped by police at about 5 am as they went to work . |
| 45 | Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide . |
| 46 | With inflation expected to run at about 5 per cent , these boosts represent real gains . |
| 47 | For example , most infants smile to visual stimuli at about 5 weeks of age . |
| 48 | I was awakened from a deep sleep at about 5 a.m. by a bump , alongside , the roar of engines and much shouting . |
| 49 | Timetables have not yet been adjusted for the higher performance of the Class 158s and the journey time to London remains at about 5 hours . |
| 50 | The risk that good quality items will not be accepted is the producer 's risk and is commonly set at about 5 per cent . |
| 51 | The risk that good quality items will not be accepted is the producer 's risk and is commonly set at about 5 per cent . |
| 52 | The timing had to be strict to meet television requirements for the finish at about 5 p.m . |
| 53 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 54 | We 've been on the set since about 8 o'clock and at about ten-thirty nobody 's shot anything . |
| 55 | At about ten-thirty when she was running a long bath , Emma knocked on the door . |
| 56 | Braithwaite , the Reverend T.E.O. She 'd seen , she averred , Amy , or anyway her car , coming down the Julians ' drive at about ten-thirty on Friday night . |
| 57 | The loss per share rose last year from 0.4p to 12.4p as turnover dipped from £87.2 million to £83.3 million , in spite of production being maintained at about 24,000 barrels per day , which is forecast to rise by 60 per cent over the next 12 months . |
| 58 | My mum came in at about 07.15 , holding out my black suit and a white shirt that she had just ironed . |
| 59 | Infant mortality remained unremittingly high at about 150/1,000 from 1840 until about 1900 , although this apparent stability may have been in part an artefact of the extension of birth registration to the least healthy groups of the population , and of a shift in the social class composition of births . |
| 60 | Even with a mileage clock that stopped at about 190,000 miles , he still runs to perfection , never gets clamped or a parking ticket , and blends beautifully into the city background . |